We show a novel approach of automatically generating minutes style extractive summaries for parliamentary speech. Minutes are structured summaries consisting of sequences of busin...
Justin Jian Zhang, Pascale Fung, Ricky Ho Yin Chan
Automatic processing of medical dictations poses a significant challenge. We approach the problem by introducing a statistical framework capable of identifying types and boundarie...
The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
We focus in this paper on the named entity recognition task in spoken data. The proposed approach investigates the use of various contexts of the words to improve recognition. Exp...
Hidden Conditional Random Fields(HCRF) is a very promising approach to model speech. However, because HCRF computes the score of a hypothesis by summing up linearly weighted featu...